You have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEIN
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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One must dare to be happy.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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